Jemima (Perkins) Burnham (1731 - abt. 1775)

Born 14 Sep 1731 in Norwichtown, New London, Connecticut

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She was a twin of Capt Jacob Perkins per The family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Massachusetts page 23

Her gravestone reads: "In memory of Mrs. Jemima, wife to Capt. Benjamin Burnham, who died Sept. 3rd 1775, aged 43 years."

The late actor Anthony Perkins, as outlined in NK2:118, was a great-great-great-grandson of Walter Burnham

(and Submit Smith), son of Benjamin Burnham and Jemima Perkins, daughter of Jacob Perkins (and Jemima Leonard), son of Jabez Perkins and Hannah Lathrop, daughter of Samuel Lathrop, Jr. (and Hannah Adgate), son of Samuel Lathrop (and Elizabeth Scudder), son of Rev. John Lathrop and Hannah House. Actress Tuesday Weld (b. 1943), born Susan Ker Weld, whose second husband was actor Dudley [Stuart John] Moore (b. 1935), was a daughter of Lathrop Motley Weld (and third wife Yosene Balfour Ker), son of Edward Motley Weld (and Sarah Lathrop King), son of Stephen Minot Weld, Jr. and Eloise Rodman, daughter of Alfred Rodman and Anna Lothrop Motley, sister of the historian. Pediatrician and peace advocate Benjamin McLane Spock, yet again a Howland descendant, was a great-great-grandson of James Wolf Ripley (and Sarah Denny), son of Ralph Ripley (and Eunice Huntington), son of Joshua Ripley and Elizabeth Lathrop, daughter of Benjamin Lathrop (and Mercy Baker), son of cousins Hope and Elizabeth Lathrop noted above. Lastly among figures of both Howland and Lathrop descent, Mrs. Vannevar Bush (Phebe Clara Davis), wife of the computer pioneer, was a great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Edward Sturgis (III) and Thankful Hedge, and of Joseph Thacher and Abigail Howes, daughter of Ebenezer Howes and Sarah Hedge. Thankful and Sarah were daughters of John Hedge and Thankful Lothrop, daughter of Barnabas Lathrop (and Susanna Clark), son of Rev. John Lathrop and Anne ----.

Sources

• Perkins, Fred. Perkins Family of Connecticut, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1860) Vol. 14, Page 115
• Find A Grave: Memorial #9187462 Ames Cemetery, Lisbon, New London, Connecticut, USA
• Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Notable Descendants of Rev. John Lathrop/Lothropp, Founder of Barnstable, Massachusetts
• http://www.americanancestors.org/rev-john-lathrop/
• The family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Massachusetts page 23